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[Xen-devel] [PATCH][FIX] Possible fix for spurious interrupts




Here is a patch that appears to fix the spurious interrupt problems for me. This is inspired by Jan's observation that the IO-APIC mask/unmask that we do for ISR processing seems to cause corruption of other routing entries. So the fix here is to do the same as native Linux -- do not mask/unmask, but instead send EOI after doing ISR processing.

To confirm this really was the problem I modified native Linux to do the same as Xen currently does (mask before ISR processing; unmask after). I then got lots of spurious USB interrupts even on native Linux! :-(

Please test... I'll put it in xen-unstable tomorrow if there are no complaints and it will be a strong candidate for the next 3.0.2 release too.

 -- Keir

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